Cheeses meet their match

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Adventurous hosts will be able to offer a selection of new cheeses this Christmas

REMEMBER the wine and cheese parties that were the social highlights of the Seventies? If you do, the memory will be of cheap red plonk and bland cheeses. Today, with enough British cheeses on the market to eat a different one every day of the year and hundreds of foreign imports, choosing cheeses and wines to go with them has become a sophisticated business.

Traditional partnerships, such as stilton and port for Christmas, are also being challenged. “They are not a brilliant match because stilton is so strong that it blows away the taste of the port,” says Rhuaridh Buchanan,